Word of Lin Qi attending Catherine's uncle's funeral quickly spread throughout Sabine City. Here, Mr. Lin Qi was the sun in the sky, making his presence impossible to ignore.
The funeral, which had not been particularly lively—in fact, it had been rather deserted—suddenly became bustling.
Everyone wanted to meet Mr. Lin Qi, chat with him, and exchange a few words.
Before the funeral began, Lin Qi and Catherine returned to her home.
Catherine's parents had not moved to Sabine City's finest community, the Lakeside Villa District. Instead, they had bought a house in a Middle Class neighborhood not far from where they had lived before.
The lower classes were actually more sentimental than the middle and Upper Classes. They were reluctant to leave the environment where they had lived for so long.
That place held their youth, their classmates, and the traces of their struggles.
Most importantly, it held people they knew.
As for why they had moved away instead of staying there, that was also because of a particular kind of "emotional" problem unique to the lower classes.
Most people faced the same problem. Once they became "successful," if they continued living in an apartment in a remote area or in an ordinary neighborhood,
they would have to deal with two possibilities—
In the first, many people would knock on their door to borrow money or ask them to do one thing or another. So long as they could take advantage of them, anything would do.
In the second, many people would badmouth them behind their backs, saying that they had not actually made much money or making some other unpleasant remarks.
This situation was not unusual at all. It was widespread among the lower and middle classes.
Everyone, especially those from the lower classes, hoped that one day